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TABLE OF CONTENTS
August 18, 2003 | Volume 99, Issue 7
August 18, 2003 The Case Against KobeA hearty thank you for putting Kobe Bryant's mug shot on the cover of SI (The Dark Side of a Star, July 28). It's maddening enough that many people think he's as good a...
August 18, 2003 LETTERS•Please e-mail us at letters@si.timeinc.com or fax us at 212-467-4049. Letters should include the writer's full name, address and home telephone number and may be edited for clarity and space.
JUNE 24, 1963
In Ireland, when a caddie says, "Yer too farty," he does not mean that you're excessively flatulent but rather that you're 240 yards from the green. Unless you're my brother Tom, in which case he...
Everyone wants to know if Jeremy Shockey is out of his mind. The answer is complicated
A Ph.D. studies the art and science of wearing blue fur
August 18, 2003 SPORTS MOVIES
3AL games finished in less than two hours this year—all of which have been matchups between starters Mark Mulder of the A's and the White Sox' Mark Buehrle.
August 18, 2003 ArrestedEight times since embarking on an 847-mile trek from Land's End in the south of England to John o'Groat's in northern Scotland, the 44-year-old nudist Gump, Steve Gough. A truck driver...
Died
August 18, 2003 | Bill Scheft Good to be here. Maybe it's just me, but I prefer Coco Crisp right out of the box.
The driver of the number 17 Dewalt Ford leads the NASCAR Winston Cup race by 258 points over Dale Earnhardt Jr.
August 18, 2003 For years calendar buyers have ogled actresses, pop starlets and swimsuit models, not to mention women's soccer teams, firefighters and the incomparable Women in Waders (SI, July 7). Now, pole...
August 18, 2003 How's this for blind ambition? Texans lineman Jerry DeLoach pulled double duty during training camp: defensive tackle and towel boy. DeLoach, a third-year player who started all 16 games for...
August 18, 2003 The father of a 16-year-old tennis player in France was arrested under suspicion of slipping a fatigue-inducing drug into the water bottles of his son's opponents.
August 18, 2003 RON ARTESTPacers forward, upon being asked to assess last month's blockbuster four-team trade that sent Knicks star Latrell Sprewell to the Timberwolves: "Spree got traded?"
August 18, 2003 AUG. 15-21
Edgy Playmakers, Sadler in the Saddle
August 18, 2003 Kenneth Ferguson, DETROITTrack and FieldFerguson, a sophomore sprinter and hurdler at South Carolina, ran a meet-record 13.60 to win the 110-meter hurdles at the Junior Pan American Games in...
Star in Stripes?
MR. FIXIT: a. Ken Anderson was a third-round pick in 1971 from Augustana (Ill.) College before he became the Bengals' alltime leading passer.
Beach life turns serious at the Jersey Shore's fierce, feisty LIFEGUARD CHAMPIONSHIPS
A Pop Warner team inspired both the New Jersey rock star and his beloved Giants
New Jerseyites weigh in on sports*
To see a gallery of every New Jersey cover, read SI stories from the Devils' Stanley Cup championships or vote for the Garden State's greatest basketball player, go to...
Class is in session for the Dallas Cowboys, and no-nonsense Bill Parcells is doing more teaching than he ever has as he embarks on his fourth, and perhaps toughest, reclamation project
Two trades and the resurgence of two big sticks have finally given Chicago more than hope
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August 18, 2003 SI.com has training camp covered. Go to si.com/football to get the latest news and analysis from NFL experts Peter King, Dr. Z, Michael Silver and Don Banks.
From a tiny Canadian town 200 miles south of the Arctic Circle, Jordin Tootoo hunts seals, whales and caribou for food. The hard-nosed forward will soon be in Nashville, trying to become the first...
August 18, 2003 Steam BathThe David Crockett High football team runs for cover as a thunderstorm interrupts practice in Austin last Friday, the same day the city had its alltime-high temperature for August—110°.
For high schoolers pursuing NBA dreams, summer is the time to shine, and none shone more brightly than three stars on the mighty Atlanta Celtics
Dwight Howard (left) may have boosted himself to the top of the NBA draft this summer, but it wasn't easy. From May 23 to Aug. 1, starting from his home base in Atlanta, he logged more than 12,200...
A year after the jarring news that the Splendid Splinter was being frozen in a cryonics lab, new details, including a decapitation, suggest that one of America's greatest heroes may never rest in...
Questions and allegations about the Alcor Life Extension Foundation extend beyond the Williams case
August 18, 2003 The NFL
Seattle corner Shawn Springs has a new coordinator—and a new outlook
On draft day the Cardinals passed on the best available pass rusher, Terrell Suggs, trading down to grab an extra first-round pick. Groans ruled the day when Arizona settled on Calvin Pace of Wake...
Well-HealedThe Marlins come up winners in a gamble on Ivan Rodriguez's fitness
After being rushed to Kansas City from Double A Wichita on Aug. 2 to fill in for the injured Jose Lima, 22-year-old rookie lefthander Jimmy Gobble helped keep the Royals in the battle for first in...
WAVED THROUGH
Baylor coach Dave Bliss's reliance on juco transfers and troubled castoffs helped cost him his job
You would not want to be Kobe Bryant now, sleeping each night on a bed of Swiss army knives, your career, your future, your life wobbling on a serrated edge.
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